An exceptionally good book, describing as a connected narrative the events of Christ's life. The language is simple and dignified, and the words of the Gospel, whenever used, are given without variation. Fully illustrated from photographs of famous paintings. STRONG, SYDNEY. Talks to Boys and Girls. Revell. .50 Under three divisions, Kite Talks, Random Talks, and The Life I Ought to Live, Mr. Strong gives us practical, interesting, and helpful suggestions for leading broad spiritual lives of love and usefulness. Many anecdotes enliven the text. SCIENCE, OUT-OF-DOOR BOOKS, AND STORIES OF ANIMALS If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. CHESTERFIELD. BAKER, R.S. The Boy's Book of Inventions. Doubleday. 2.00 These accounts of the wonders of modern science tell of liquid air, wireless telegraphy, X-Ray photography, and other marvels. There are many illustrations. BAMFORD, M.E. (p. 157) Up and Down the Brooks. Houghton. .75 A careful observer and nature-lover gives us a familiar account of the wonderful lives of the little brook creatures. The insects mentioned in these pages are those of Alameda County, California, but members of the same families will be found in or beside almost any brook, East or West. CHAPMAN, F.M. Bird-Life. Illustrated by E.E. Thompson-Seton. Appleton. 2.00 Illustrated with seventy-five full-page plates in color and figures in the text. Non-technical, with a color key to about one hundred and fifty of the more common species. This book is in two parts. The first chapters define the bird, its place in Nature, and its relation to man, and outline the leading facts in its life-history. The second part gives a Field Key based on color, and biographies of some of the common birds. AUDUBON SOCIETY. CLODD, EDWARD. The Childhood of the World. Kegan Paul. 1.25 This book ... is an attempt, in the absence of any kindred elementary work, to narrate, in as simple language as the subject will permit, the story of man's progress from the unknown time of his early appearance upon the earth to the period from which writers of history ordinarily begin. ... The First Part of this book describes the progress of man in material things, while (p. 158) the Second Part seeks to explain his mode of advance from lower to higher stages of religious belief.--_Preface._ And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man. WHITTIER.